HIGH SALARIES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 5

HIGH SALARIES

LORD BIRKENHEAD REPLIES

(United Service.)

(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 30

Lord Birkenhead in the “Evening Standard” submits an incisive reply • to Dean Luge’s article, cabled on. 24tn October. He says:-—“I have admiration for Dean Inge who is a scholar with great gifts as a journalist and very clever. Wiliout being an insincere poseur, he has exploited the gkxftiiy Dean busiiiess. To me lie is not particularly gloomy; his gloom ts really' a pose, ascetic' iti appearance. Ho inis ;a senso of humour which he is never permitted to. doeommercialise his journalistic career. I should have thought Dean. Inge 'would have lamonted tlie jqquaiid meanness which leaves the Prime Minister of Eng-land-five thousand a year and no pension, and the'inadequacy of judicial salaries is also a scandal, and the Leader of the Opposition should receive a salary. The dean thinks it dignified to be content with a small income, yet I seem to remember the Dean- justifying:', his .: own journalisticactivities by the plea that lie could not support liis family on his/-Deac-on al salary. Moreover I havelieafd' many reports from Fleet -Street.- veify. gratifying to ’the- reputation of the Reverend Dean, as a man of business. He is the astute negotiator of the- -very ■ valuable --material -he sells. I suggest that for the guidance of public men 7 the, DdnftJ : inform us how much he himself ' would Allow anyone to earn.”

DEAN INGE. . ~ , . / - '-i ; ; <- ‘ A HIS FURTHER COMMENT. ,?■ 4 Vi LONDON, Oct. 30. Dean Inge, who was shown the reply, wrote) emphasising there were no personalities in his article. Socialists say nobody ought to have more than five bundled : a year. He suggested that ten times more dtight to content a servant of the State, and does content our Admirals/ Cbnerals and Bishops and would seem untold Wealth ' to' our greatest scholars, and scientific discoverers. Our most- gifted nien ought to show us hoiv combine high thinking with plain living, which is not difficult. . ■